I love learning about the letter S and so do the kids! Learning the sound is super easy because we get to sound like snakes. They had lots of fun making snake sounds and finding words that start with S!
We also pulled out some new puzzles this week, which is also fun. Puzzles are so great for spacial reasoning and fine motor skills. If you're child isn't ready to put a puzzle together on their own yet, help them and let them just put the pieces together! I saw one student this week just taking one piece out at a time and then putting it back in. Though that doesn't seem productive, it's a great start!
On Friday we got to practice numbers some more and worked on identifying numerals. A few kids were even ready to start on 15-20!
Our group activities for the week started off with a lesson on Groundhog Day. We learned about making predictions and took a poll of our class and recorded our predictions on whether the groundhog would see his shadow. After that we got to watch the ceremony and look back at our predictions to see if we were right! Looks like we're in for more winter. I think I'm ok with that!
On Wednesday we started our outer space unit by learning about the sun. We watched the first few minutes of the Bill Nye episode about the sun. The kids loved it! If you would like to let your child watch the rest of the episode, you can find it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-l65eEgjc .
We also started a science experiment to research why we use sunscreen. The kids each made a picture with sunscreen and then we set them out in the sun. We'll leave them out for a few days and see what happens to the paper.
We also made sun catchers by drawing pictures and then poking holes along the lines with a toothpick. I hope your child got a chance to hang theirs in a window to show you!
On Friday we made some decorations for our classroom and practiced our scissor skills for cutting out stars.
We also started to talk about the moon. Since the moon is bumpy, we made bumpy paper plates and then covered them in tin foil so they look like the moon!
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